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title: But he said no, and that he would not go, for he was so miserable th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But he said no, and that he would not go, for he was so miserable that it was all one to him whether he died or not; that he had lost everything, and especially a splendid palace like none other in the whole world, for it had laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and all the furniture was of silver an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 50

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But he said no, and that he would not go, for he was so miserable that it was all one to him whether he died or not; that he had lost everything, and especially a splendid palace like none other in the whole world, for it had laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and all the furniture was of silver and gold.

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**Who acts:** son, horse, furniture · **What happens:** say, not go, be, die, lose, have · **To what, where:** one, son, everything, laths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, horse, furniture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:20:50
# text = But he said no, and that he would not go, for he was so miserable that it was all one to him whether he died or not; that he had lost everything, and especially a splendid palace like none other in the whole world, for it had laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and all the furniture was of silver and gold.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
35	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	41	nmod	_	_
44	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
53	laths	lath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
62	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	64	det:predet	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
65	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	cop	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	parataxis	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go** | would | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | son |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | horse | all one | son |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **die** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **lose** | past · perfect | son | everything |  |  |  | a splendid palace like none *obl* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 7 | **have** | past | horse | laths of gold and tiles of diamond |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lath=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past | all furniture |  |  |  |  | of silver and gold | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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